Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Actress/activist-turned-fitness guru Jane Fonda appeared in this black-and-white episode of What's My Line?, a CBS prime time guessing game moderated by the late broadcast news journalist John Charles Daley. On my 60th milestone post on the CINEMATICOLOGY Blog, I have posted this classic segment of What's My Line? featuring Miss Fonda on YouTube, furnished by FremantleMedia North America.

Before Night Shift, Splash, Willow, The Da Vinci Code and The Dilemma, Ron Howard directed and starred in this 1977 New World Pictures action comedy about a motorist who gets in big trouble with a private dick and a corpse of drivers maneuvering their motor cars on the freeways of the West Coast.

Let's get invisible! The 1957 science fiction exploitation film The Invisible Boy depicts a teenager who is sent to a top-secret laboratory and develops an experiment that allows him to disappear and re-appear in the blink of an eye.

William Wyler's adaptation of the award winning Broadway hit drama starring Humphrey Bogart. This marked the feature acting debut of the Dead End Kids, which would go on to star in an Allied Artists franchise that attracted a cult following of movie-theater goers and Dead End Kids fans across the country and internationally.

The 1978 trailer for American Raspberry, released in the U.S. under the title Prime Time. See if you can spot a pre-Mandeville Films David Hoberman at the conclusion of the closing credits. of this Cannon Films cult favorite.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Nelson Algren's critically acclaimed and highly controversial novel The Man with the Golden Arm became a riveting, suspense-filled drama in which Frankie Machine, portrayed by Frank Sinatra, tackles heorin and falls in love with a beautiful woman who has had met Frankie while not playing a compulsive game of high-stakes poker.